The Serb People's Council (SNV) said on Saturday it had the duty to ask, so as to protect the role of the president of the republic and his office and because of the public's right to know, who were the people the president was receiving and who were using him to make public statements in his presence that slandered SNV president and Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS) MP Milorad Pupovac.
The SNV wondered in a statement how President Ivo Josipovic could receive in his office Serb People's Party president Milan Rodic who, according to the SNV, distributed weapons at the start of the war in Croatia and mistreated those who did not share his opinions, and who owed the state HRK 295,910 in taxes.
The SNV also wondered how the president could receive Nikola Lazic, president of the Trpinja Municipal Council, accusing him of property corruption.
The SNV wondered how Josipovic could ask such people for information about the position of the Serb community in Croatia, instead of government bodies and elected institutions such as the SNV and the SDSS which, the statement said, expunged them after "finding out who they are and what they do."
